Key To The City

A pleasant comedy with some sharp lines and a bit of satire, this was Morgan's last film, as he died, at 59, shortly after the film's completion. At a mayors' convention in San Francisco, Young, the ladylike mayor of a tiny town in Maine, meets Gable, an ex-stevedore who now runs a northern California city. Although very different people, they are both serious and honest in their work. The convention gets a bit rowdy, and they are pushed into each other's arms through a series of funny complications. They involuntarily achieve notoriety in the local press and are close to going to jail (where Gleason is excellent as the booking sergeant) when, in a romantic scene o...